RE: Floppy drives on ancient AS/400's

I loved it when we got ours - no more dropped card decks! And I dropped a
lot of card decks, which was why it was important to number your coding
lines.

Jerry C. Adams
My emotional support animal is a bucket of fried chicken.
IBM i Programmer/Analyst
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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Joe Pluta
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2021 10:53 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Floppy drives on ancient AS/400's

My favorite, albeit for the S/3:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EEpI583UEAAYQ17.jpg

On 5/21/2021 2:01 PM, Steinmetz, Paul via MIDRANGE-L wrote:

James,

We had a 3410/3411.
2nd pic top left.

https://www.google.com/search?q=IBM+3411+picture&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&f
ir=7imiJ6eRM7bZKM%252C2_nn373XJWellM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kSSM1KIa-N6Stydf-x
KyJaUDB8UZw&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiv_OamudvwAhUOGFkFHe3WAxkQ9QF6BAgHEAE#imgrc=7imi
J6eRM7bZKM

More good pictures.

https://www.google.com/search?q=IBM+S/38+tape+device+history&tbm=isch&source
=iu&ictx=1&fir=bJTCBBh7Y4bUbM%252CIhQrCZ1igqoX1M%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kRK8Oc
jybfNZytNqH-NP0eC6pDtZA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi8qtSEttvwAhUrFlkFHTR4Cz0Q_h16BAgPEA
E#imgrc=bJTCBBh7Y4bUbM

Paul


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James H. H. Lampert

Sent: Friday, May 21, 2021 1:37 PM
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Subject: Re: Floppy drives on ancient AS/400's

On 5/21/21 10:26 AM, Steinmetz, Paul via MIDRANGE-L wrote:

In the late 80's our S/38 had the below.

8" floppy - Used for system maintenance.

Hmm. As it happens, the 4341 I mentioned in another thread had 8" floppy

drives buried inside at least one, and possibly several, of the cabinets.

BTW, are there any pictures of what a 1/2" reel tape drive even *looks
like* on an AS/400? Does it look like your typical mainframe tape drive,

vacuum columns and all? (I think the only place I can recall seeing tape
drives of that sort in operation, in person, is at the Computer History
Museum, in Mountain View, on their restored IBM 1401 [and maybe also their
restored PDP-1, although I think *that* uses a *punched paper

tape* drive]).

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